/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10351114]

Did yall ban bookshelf threads or something? Normally I just lurk here, maybe check in once or twice a month, so maybe its just a timing thing...but I havent seen a bookshelf thread in forever

Posting my turbopleb shelf just to get it started.

Pretty soon I'll be (most likely) going to jail/prison so I'll get lots of reading in. I'm gonna try and tackle everything I felt was too dense or boring.

Anyway. Post your shelves please!

[Anonymous No.10351128]

>pic is blurry
>movies on your bookshelf
>The Simpsons
This is why we don't have bookshelf threads anymore. This shelf is an embarrassment.

[Anonymous No.10351165]

i'd comment if i could see what books you have. Too many movies, not enough books m8

[Anonymous No.10351188]

>>10351128
Well I didnt want comments on mine I just posted because I wanted to see others. And the pic is blurry because im poor.

Heres the best I could do in getting most of (and only) the books in

[Anonymous No.10351199]

>>10351114
>Star Wars
>'97 Special Edition

[Anonymous No.10351207]

>>10351114
Omg i love these threads, i gotchu famiglia

[Anonymous No.10351220]

>>10351199
Blame Lucas, not me

[Anonymous No.10351223]

>>10351220
>doesn't even have '95 One Last Time boxset
baka

[Anonymous No.10351227]

>>10351207
Is there anything worse than the 'mint collector's edition' aesthetic?

[Anonymous No.10351251]

>>10351223
I have laserdisc originals on my computer. Ive had that special edition boxset since my 10th birthday

[Anonymous No.10351253]

>>10351227

ya the barnes and noble mint condition collection

[Anonymous No.10351264]

>>10351114
What are you going away for and how long?

[Anonymous No.10351606]

Here's mine

[Anonymous No.10351613]

>>10351114
>Pretty soon I'll be (most likely) going to jail/prison
Are you the pugilist on /k/ with anger problems?

The shelf is shit, you should kick it to pieces.

[Anonymous No.10351854]

>>10351207
Those are so fucking hideous, jesus christ I hope this was a troll post

[Anonymous No.10352307]

>>10351207
sorry you got judged bro

[Anonymous No.10352313]

>>10351207
>that Starship Troopers
What the fuck, my tiny-ass paperback is like 250 pages with fairly large font. Is that hardcover copy 24 point or something?

[Anonymous No.10352318]

Just moved and had to slim down. I feel like I always give away my favorites, but I suppose that's good.

[Anonymous No.10352326]

>>10351114
You have a lot of Noam Chompsky, recommend anything specific by him?

[Anonymous No.10352966]

I make the gf build the bookshelf.

[Anonymous No.10353088]

>>10352313
its a 2 in 1 with stranger in a strange land

[Anonymous No.10354274]

>>10352326
Manufacturing Consent (though a joint project obvs). Very important book for anyone who consumes mass media and wants some explication of the wheat from the chaffe

[Anonymous No.10354300]

>>10352966
send me some pictures of your gfs tits to prove thats a real woman

[Anonymous No.10354345]

[Anonymous No.10354356]

They're banal and repetitive. We get it, you brainlets like showing off your novelty books and plebeian garbage. Like the battlestation threads on /g/ it's the same retards posting the same thing daily.

It's also disgusting consumerism.

[Anonymous No.10354367]

>>10354300
This is a blue board Anon.

[Anonymous No.10354608]

>>10352966
I think I saw more pictures of this. Or maybe it was another anon

[Anonymous No.10354723]

>>10351207
Dunno why one wouldn't just get the Everyman hardbacks instead, they're cheaper and much more aesthetically pleasing on a bookshelf. That way your bookshelf won't look like it is that of a 14 year old girl's.

[Anonymous No.10354744]

>>10354608
There’re from me originally. I posted them like 2 years ago and you guys kept spamming the photos in other threads.

[Anonymous No.10354770]

>>10354723
>every book looks the same

yeah no thanks

[Anonymous No.10354879]

>>10351264
Felony possession of a controlled substance

If the charge sticks its 2 to 20. Hoping to get a plea to a lesser charge but I have a few previous drug/alcohol charges and live in TX so my lawyer told me not to hold my breath on that

[Anonymous No.10354897]

>>10352326
As the other anon said Manufacturing Consent is probably the one "required reading" book of his. A lot of his books are not written but someone transcribing lectures and talks hes given. Manufacturing Consent is a book he actually wrote and it tackles a subject thats pretty important.

I also enjoyed On Anarchism a great deal but thats because I'm very interested in that subject.

[Anonymous No.10354969]

>>10351188
>being a fan of Chomsky

[Anonymous No.10355611]

>>10351606
The DFW elephant on the bookshelf is looking suspiciously unread, unlike the other books.

Interesting selection, though.

[Anonymous No.10355859]

>>10351606

What edition of Moby Dick is that?

[Anonymous No.10355866]

>>10351606

Nevermind. Found it.

If anyone else cares:

harpercollins.com/9780062085641/moby-dick

[Anonymous No.10355876]

>>10354345
Haha, nice to see a fellow /pol/ visitor.

[Anonymous No.10355904]

[Anonymous No.10356286]

Russian shelf

[Anonymous No.10356479]

>>10355866

[Anonymous No.10356491]

>>10356479

I already have a copy of the book but I'm tempted to buy that one. Oh god, I'm becoming a consumerist shit.

[Anonymous No.10356493]

>>10356491
It's the only copy I own. It's my favorite book.

[Anonymous No.10356495]

>>10356491
>>10356493
It also has those cool page edges where they're not cut evenly. The spine seems kind of week though but it feels good in the hand

[Anonymous No.10356499]

>>10356495
It's called a deckle edge.

[Anonymous No.10356500]

>>10356495
>>10356493

I just like the cover, honestly. I'm really debating whether I want it or not.

[Anonymous No.10356503]

>>10356499
Yeah that, they're great.

[Anonymous No.10356512]

>>10356500
I feel of it is the best part desu. It's pretty light for being so thick and the cover is kind of textured. Would recommend.

[Anonymous No.10356519]

>>10356500
It's $5 on ebay. Go for it, anon.

[Anonymous No.10356567]

>>10352326
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

[Anonymous No.10356592]

>>10356479
Cute girl! What's her deal?

[Anonymous No.10356598]

>>10356592
She’s holding m’dick

[Anonymous No.10356604]

>>10356519
>>10356512

$10 on eBay for me. I'll get it once I get paid, I guess. I can donate my copy to someone else. Got Christmas gifts to buy but I think I really want this one.

[Anonymous No.10356605]

>yall
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.10356906]

what should i read next from my shelf

[Anonymous No.10356913]

>>10356906
Republic, check em

[Anonymous No.10356953]

[Anonymous No.10356954]

>>10355611
Yeah I haven't gotten around reading it yet, I was saving it after I finished my exams and I just did so im starting it soon

[Anonymous No.10356962]

Am I the biggest pseud on /lit/?

[Anonymous No.10356972]

haha

[Anonymous No.10356977]

>>10351114

i have that same foam roller, anon

[Anonymous No.10356989]

>>10354345
>video games
>non intellectual books
>bait
You almost got me there, fuggggg :D

[Anonymous No.10356990]

>>10356605
when I first heard some soft-skinned pretty boy in a pair of dockers use the word "y'all" in conversation I thought it was some inside joke I didn't understand. The way he said it, with a slight ironic twist as in "I don't really talk like this but youknowwhatimean" was so preposterous that I simply thought he was making fun of my rural accent. Then I heard it again, and again, even after I changed my accent to a more inoffensive midwestern, and I came to realize that it's a genuine piece of vocabulary in the latte-sipper's world. Shoved in there, awkwardly tucked away amongst the "omg"s and the "like, totally"s was this graft of language from the opposite side of the divide. Initially it irritated me, but I quickly grew to love it. I would eagerly anticipate the contraction dropping off of my hippie liberal eat-out-every-friday friends' tongues, and always feel a little peal of triumph when it did. It's such a good word that even the concrete addicts of the urban upper middle class couldn't keep it out of their mouths. Make all the incest, white trash, retard disses you want - at the end of the day, nothing beats good old fashioned country pragmatism.

[Anonymous No.10357034]

>>10356962
>only minima moralia, no aesthetic theory or negative dialectics
>no collected works of aristotle
>no sense and sensibilia by austin or his collected papers
>ayer
>no 4 volume selected writings of benjamin
>no arcades project
>no reflections on the revolution in france
>camus
>chalmers
>sennett
>no speech and phenomena by derrida, or dissemination, or of spirit or heidegger: the question
>only volume 1 of descartes
>cambridge companions
>madness & civilization, not the unabridged original "history of madness"
>only the introduction to the history of sexuality
>only one of his lectures
>no 3 volume New Press collection of foucault's course summaries and interviews
>no science of logic
>no encyclopedia
>no contributions to philosophy (from enowning), no black notebooks, no kant and the problem of metaphysics
>labelling dialectic of enlightenment under H and not under A
>no full Treatise of Human Nature from the gorgeous Oxford Philosophical Texts
Pluhar is acceptable as a substitution for Guyer if you're a pleb but you seriously need the cambridge editions of kant
>no "philosophical troubles" by kripke
>shitty little volume of kierkegaard, no hong & hong works
>shitty abridgement of an essay concerning human understanding
>lyotard
>no eros and civilization, just marcuse's worst book (even worse than heideggerian marxism)
>only volume one of capital, no grundrisse, early writings, dispatches from the tribune
>no autobiography of mill
>no complete works of plato
>not owning everything quine ever published
>no confessions by rousseau
>bertrand russell
>dover classics and not the cambridge editions of schopenhauer
>John "sexually assaults his assistants" Searle
>SINGER
oh you have the theory of moral sentiments thats actually good
>no complete works of spinoza
>some garbage fucking anthology of wittgenstein when all of his proper works barely amount to 2000 pages
>Zizek with no Lacan
>Barthes
>Sontag
the oxford KJV with apocrypha is ok but study bibles in most bookstores have much deeper annotations and critical essays, I recommend looking into texts on Koine greek and consulting different translations of the new testament
>no city of god
>no aquinas
>malcolm x
I rate you 3/10
maybe in a year or two you'll be a 4 or 5
you're on your way from plebdom though

[Anonymous No.10357766]

>>10356990

>language is owned by subspecies of people

I'm from a rural area and you're being kind of a pretentious shit.

[Anonymous No.10357779]

>>10356286

Nice anon - Rereading The Brothers Karamazov atm. Just finished The Grand Inquisitor.

[Anonymous No.10357782]

A Few folios

[Anonymous No.10357783]

A few more

[Anonymous No.10357802]

>>10357782
Nice icon

[Anonymous No.10358777]

>>10356962
>Foucalt
>Derrida
>Hegel's
>Plato
etc.

Autism: the shelf.

[Anonymous No.10359851]

>>10355904
Did you like Hard Times by Studs Terkel? I enjoyed Working immensely, haven't read any of his other stuff.

[Anonymous No.10360224]

>>10356962
what's with the two copies of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"?
did you accidentally forget to buy C. of Practical Reason?

[Anonymous No.10360418]

>>10360224
Two different translations.

[Anonymous No.10360446]

>>10360224
>he can't differentiate the Norman Kemp Smith and the Pluhar translation by sight
look at this fucking gigapleb

[Anonymous No.10360461]

>>10356962
noice

[Anonymous No.10360576]

>>10354345
kek

[Anonymous No.10360588]

>>10355904
Have you read The Rapes of Grath?

[Anonymous No.10360600]

>>10354345

Isn't she now complaining about how the other retards in the alt-right are being mean to women? Crazy stuff.

[Anonymous No.10360635]

>>10356990
They use the word "folk" a lot as well.

[Anonymous No.10360681]

>>10356913
Rolling for this>>10356906

[Anonymous No.10361560]

>>10354345
>not one but TWO copies of gorilla mindset
>WWE video game
>gamestop receipt

gets me every time